I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different hardware) from F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be badly messed up in the area of package management. The main symptom I see is that google-chrome-stable was uninstalled during the upgrade, and I can't reinstall it:
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf install google-chrome-stable --allowerasing Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:42 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: nothing provides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip needed by redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-32.fc24.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
I also get "no matching packages" responses to "dnf list" on packages that are already installed:
root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf clean all 72 files removed [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf list cups* Fedora 24 - x86_64 8.3 MB/s | 47 MB 00:05 google-chrome 55 kB/s | 3.5 kB 00:00 Adobe Systems Incorporated 17 kB/s | 1.8 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free 839 kB/s | 326 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree 311 kB/s | 64 kB 00:00 Steam for Fedora 28 kB/s | 7.9 kB 00:00 Dropbox Repository 25 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - Updates 131 kB/s | 18 kB 00:00 Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates 7.3 MB/s | 8.0 MB 00:01 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Updates 272 kB/s | 75 kB 00:00 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:02 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: No matching Packages to list
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep cups cups-filesystem-2.1.0-2.fc23.noarch python3-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-client-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.i686 python2-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-filters-libs-1.6.0-1.fc23.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-6.fc23.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
Here, dnf fails to even list packages that "rpm -q" shows are already on the system that should match the pattern.
Anybody seen this or have a clue what I can do other than a full reinstall?
Thanks, --Greg
2016-07-04 1:23 GMT+02:00, Greg Woods woods@ucar.edu:
I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different hardware) from F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be badly messed up in the area of package management. The main symptom I see is that google-chrome-stable was uninstalled during the upgrade, and I can't reinstall it:
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf install google-chrome-stable --allowerasing Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:42 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: nothing provides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip needed by redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-32.fc24.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
I also get "no matching packages" responses to "dnf list" on packages that are already installed:
root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf clean all 72 files removed [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf list cups* Fedora 24 - x86_64 8.3 MB/s | 47 MB 00:05 google-chrome 55 kB/s | 3.5 kB 00:00 Adobe Systems Incorporated 17 kB/s | 1.8 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free 839 kB/s | 326 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree 311 kB/s | 64 kB 00:00 Steam for Fedora 28 kB/s | 7.9 kB 00:00 Dropbox Repository 25 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - Updates 131 kB/s | 18 kB 00:00 Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates 7.3 MB/s | 8.0 MB 00:01 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Updates 272 kB/s | 75 kB 00:00 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:02 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: No matching Packages to list
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep cups cups-filesystem-2.1.0-2.fc23.noarch python3-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-client-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.i686 python2-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-filters-libs-1.6.0-1.fc23.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-6.fc23.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
Here, dnf fails to even list packages that "rpm -q" shows are already on the system that should match the pattern.
Anybody seen this or have a clue what I can do other than a full reinstall?
Just say
dnf list cups*
instead of
dnf list cups*
Andras
On 04/07/16 18:42, Andras Simon wrote:
2016-07-04 1:23 GMT+02:00, Greg Woods woods@ucar.edu:
I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different hardware) from F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be badly messed up in the area of package management. The main symptom I see is that google-chrome-stable was uninstalled during the upgrade, and I can't reinstall it:
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf install google-chrome-stable --allowerasing Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:42 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: nothing provides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip needed by redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-32.fc24.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
I also get "no matching packages" responses to "dnf list" on packages that are already installed:
root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf clean all 72 files removed [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf list cups* Fedora 24 - x86_64 8.3 MB/s | 47 MB 00:05 google-chrome 55 kB/s | 3.5 kB 00:00 Adobe Systems Incorporated 17 kB/s | 1.8 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free 839 kB/s | 326 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree 311 kB/s | 64 kB 00:00 Steam for Fedora 28 kB/s | 7.9 kB 00:00 Dropbox Repository 25 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - Updates 131 kB/s | 18 kB 00:00 Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates 7.3 MB/s | 8.0 MB 00:01 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Updates 272 kB/s | 75 kB 00:00 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:02 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: No matching Packages to list
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep cups cups-filesystem-2.1.0-2.fc23.noarch python3-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-client-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.i686 python2-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-filters-libs-1.6.0-1.fc23.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-6.fc23.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
Here, dnf fails to even list packages that "rpm -q" shows are already on the system that should match the pattern.
Anybody seen this or have a clue what I can do other than a full reinstall?
Just say
dnf list cups*
instead of
dnf list cups*
It may not be of much use to this issue, but on my system which I have just upgraded to F24, if I issue "dnf list cups*" or "dnf list cups*" I get the same result which is all packages that have cups specified in the package name, not just packages that begin with the word cups.
regards, Steve
Andras
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On 07/03/2016 04:23 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf install google-chrome-stable --allowerasing Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:42 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: nothing provides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip needed by redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-32.fc24.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
What does "dnf repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip" tell you?
I also get "no matching packages" responses to "dnf list" on packages that are already installed:
root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf clean all 72 files removed [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf list cups* [...] Error: No matching Packages to list
Do you have a file that starts with "cups" in your repos directory? As someone else mentioned, escape the *.
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep cups cups-filesystem-2.1.0-2.fc23.noarch python3-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-client-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.i686 python2-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-filters-libs-1.6.0-1.fc23.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-6.fc23.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
That shows you are missing the necessary package. Try installing the "cups-filters" package.
Thanks for the responses. Sorry for the delay, July 4 is the Independence Day holiday here in the US, and I have been visiting with family the past couple of days.
It's not wildcarding on cups*, so that's not it. The repo database just appears to be massively hosed somehow:
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates 51 kB/s | 8.5 MB 02:51 Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:37 ago on Tue Jul 5 16:45:38 2016. [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# ls cups* ls: cannot access 'cups*': No such file or directory [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf install cups-filters Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:48 ago on Tue Jul 5 16:45:38 2016. No package cups-filters available. Error: Unable to find a match. [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
--Greg
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
On 07/03/2016 04:23 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf install google-chrome-stable --allowerasing Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:42 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: nothing provides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip needed by redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-32.fc24.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
What does "dnf repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip" tell you?
I also get "no matching packages" responses to "dnf list" on packages
that are already installed:
root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf clean all 72 files removed [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf list cups* [...] Error: No matching Packages to list
Do you have a file that starts with "cups" in your repos directory?
As someone else mentioned, escape the *.
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep cups
cups-filesystem-2.1.0-2.fc23.noarch python3-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-client-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.i686 python2-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-filters-libs-1.6.0-1.fc23.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-6.fc23.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
That shows you are missing the necessary package. Try installing the
"cups-filters" package.
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On 07/05/2016 03:50 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
It's not wildcarding on cups*, so that's not it. The repo database just appears to be massively hosed somehow:
Just making sure. It did seem very strange to match something like that in the repo directory.
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf repoquery --whatprovides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates 51 kB/s | 8.5 MB 02:51 Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:37 ago on Tue Jul 5 16:45:38 2016. [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# ls cups* ls: cannot access 'cups*': No such file or directory [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf install cups-filters Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:48 ago on Tue Jul 5 16:45:38 2016. No package cups-filters available. Error: Unable to find a match. [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
What is the output of "dnf repolist all"?
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote
What is the output of "dnf repolist all"?
root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf repolist all Last metadata expiration check: 1:29:54 ago on Tue Jul 5 19:57:02 2016. repo id repo name status Dropbox Dropbox Repository enabled: 4 adobe-linux-x86_64 Adobe Systems Incorporated enabled: 2 *fedora Fedora 24 - x86_64 enabled: 49,703 fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 24 openh264 (From Cisco) - x8 disabled fedora-cisco-openh264-debuginfo Fedora 24 openh264 (From Cisco) - x8 disabled fedora-debuginfo Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Debug disabled fedora-source Fedora 24 - Source disabled fedora-steam Steam for Fedora enabled: 19 fedora-steam-source Steam for Fedora - Source disabled google-chrome google-chrome enabled: 3 rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free enabled: 352 rpmfusion-free-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - De disabled rpmfusion-free-rawhide RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide
- Free disabled
rpmfusion-free-rawhide-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide
- Free disabled
rpmfusion-free-rawhide-source RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide
- Free disabled
rpmfusion-free-source RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - So disabled rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Up enabled: 66 rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Up disabled rpmfusion-free-updates-source RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Up disabled rpmfusion-free-updates-testing RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Te disabled rpmfusion-free-updates-testing-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Te disabled rpmfusion-free-updates-testing-source RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Te disabled rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree enabled: 89 rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - disabled rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide
- Nonf disabled
rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide
- Nonf disabled
rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide-source RPM Fusion for Fedora Rawhide
- Nonf disabled
rpmfusion-nonfree-source RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - disabled rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - enabled: 40 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - disabled rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-source RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - disabled rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - disabled rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing-debuginfo RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - disabled rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing-source RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - disabled *updates Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates enabled: 5,114 updates-debuginfo Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates - Debug disabled updates-source Fedora 24 - Updates Source disabled updates-testing Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Test Updates disabled updates-testing-debuginfo Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Test Updates De disabled updates-testing-source Fedora 24 - Test Updates Source disabled
The other system that is messed up looks the same except that it doesn't have Steam on it.
--Greg
On 07/04/16 07:23, Greg Woods wrote:
I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different hardware) from F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be badly messed up in the area of package management. The main symptom I see is that google-chrome-stable was uninstalled during the upgrade, and I can't reinstall it:
One thing you can try would be to move /var/cache/dnf/packages.db out of the way and then run "dnf list installed" which will rebuild the db.
I just "tested" this on a VM and the rebuild occurs and everything is normal.
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf install google-chrome-stable --allowerasing Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:42 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: nothing provides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip needed by redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-32.fc24.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
I also get "no matching packages" responses to "dnf list" on packages that are already installed:
root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf clean all 72 files removed [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf list cups* Fedora 24 - x86_64 8.3 MB/s | 47 MB 00:05 google-chrome 55 kB/s | 3.5 kB 00:00 Adobe Systems Incorporated 17 kB/s | 1.8 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free 839 kB/s | 326 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree 311 kB/s | 64 kB 00:00 Steam for Fedora 28 kB/s | 7.9 kB 00:00 Dropbox Repository 25 kB/s | 2.4 kB 00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - Updates 131 kB/s | 18 kB 00:00 Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates 7.3 MB/s | 8.0 MB 00:01 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Updates 272 kB/s | 75 kB 00:00 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:02 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: No matching Packages to list
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep cups cups-filesystem-2.1.0-2.fc23.noarch python3-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-client-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.i686 python2-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-filters-libs-1.6.0-1.fc23.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-6.fc23.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
Here, dnf fails to even list packages that "rpm -q" shows are already on the system that should match the pattern.
Anybody seen this or have a clue what I can do other than a full reinstall?
Thanks, --Greg
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On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 10:35 PM, Ed Greshko ed.greshko@greshko.com wrote:
On 07/04/16 07:23, Greg Woods wrote:
I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different
hardware) from
F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be
badly messed up in
the area of package management. The main symptom I see is that
google-chrome-stable was
uninstalled during the upgrade, and I can't reinstall it:
One thing you can try would be to move /var/cache/dnf/packages.db out of the way and then run "dnf list installed" which will rebuild the db.
Good idea, but it didn't help in this case. I did move it out of the way and run the "dnf list installed", and it did rebuild the packages.db file, but I still get:
[root@cobweb dnf]# dnf list cups* Last metadata expiration check: 17:01:11 ago on Tue Jul 5 19:57:02 2016. Error: No matching Packages to list [root@cobweb dnf]#
--Greg
I just "tested" this on a VM and the rebuild occurs and everything is normal.
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf install google-chrome-stable
--allowerasing
Last metadata expiration check: 0:08:42 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: nothing provides /usr/bin/foomatic-rip needed by redhat-lsb-printing-4.1-32.fc24.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
I also get "no matching packages" responses to "dnf list" on packages
that are already
installed:
root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf clean all 72 files removed [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# dnf list cups* Fedora 24 - x86_64 8.3 MB/s
| 47 MB
00:05 google-chrome 55 kB/s
| 3.5 kB
00:00 Adobe Systems Incorporated 17 kB/s
| 1.8 kB
00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free 839 kB/s
| 326 kB
00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree 311 kB/s
| 64 kB
00:00 Steam for Fedora 28 kB/s
| 7.9 kB
00:00 Dropbox Repository 25 kB/s
| 2.4 kB
00:00 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Nonfree - Updates 131 kB/s
| 18 kB
00:00 Fedora 24 - x86_64 - Updates 7.3 MB/s
| 8.0 MB
00:01 RPM Fusion for Fedora 24 - Free - Updates 272 kB/s
| 75 kB
00:00 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:02 ago on Sun Jul 3 17:09:12 2016. Error: No matching Packages to list
[root@cobweb yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa | grep cups cups-filesystem-2.1.0-2.fc23.noarch python3-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-client-2.1.0-2.fc23.x86_64 cups-libs-2.1.0-2.fc23.i686 python2-cups-1.9.72-8.fc24.x86_64 cups-filters-libs-1.6.0-1.fc23.x86_64 cups-pk-helper-0.2.5-6.fc23.x86_64 [root@cobweb yum.repos.d]#
Here, dnf fails to even list packages that "rpm -q" shows are already on
the system that
should match the pattern.
Anybody seen this or have a clue what I can do other than a full
reinstall?
Thanks, --Greg
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Greg Woods woods@ucar.edu wrote:
On 07/04/16 07:23, Greg Woods wrote:
I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different
hardware) from
F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be
badly messed up in
the area of package management. The main symptom I see is that
google-chrome-stable was
uninstalled during the upgrade, and I can't reinstall it:
I have not been able to resolve the original issue, but I was finally able to install google-chrome-stable. I believe this only worked because the google-chrome packages are intended to run on different distros, and the distros use different names for the packages, and so the dependencies for google-chrome-stable are on specific files rather than on packages (e.g. /usr/bin/foomatic-rip rather than cups-filters). It appears that google-chrome and a number of the cups packages were deleted during the upgrade for unknown reasons (presumably related to whatever the underlying package management problem is). I found this out because printing wasn't working any more either. (I did end up having to use "--allowerasing", but it seems like I always end up having to do that in order to get "dnf system-upgrade" to work. This is the first (and second) time that I have ever had anything like this happen as a result though).
Since I have my own copy of the fedora repos, I mounted it and went in to the Packages/c directory and installed the cups packages directly from RPMs. Doing this brought back memories of the pre-yum "dependency hell" days. I attempt to install cups-client*.rpm and it says "nothing provides cups-libs". So I add that RPM to the list and another is needed, etc. I ended up having to specify about 8 different RPMs in order to get cups-client and cups-filters to install. After installing those, I was able to install google-chrome-stable, and printing now works.
Unfortunately, "dnf list cups*" still says there are no matching packages, whereas "rpm -qa | grep cups" shows them. So although chrome and printing are working again, the system is not updateable. So I still eventually need to find out what the heck happened during the upgrade and how to fix it.
--Greg
On 07/07/2016 03:45 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Greg Woods <woods@ucar.edu mailto:woods@ucar.edu> wrote:
On 07/04/16 07:23, Greg Woods wrote: > I have upgraded 4 systems (two laptops and two desktops, all different hardware) from > F23 to F24. Two of them are working fine, and the others seem to be badly messed up in > the area of package management. The main symptom I see is that google-chrome-stable was > uninstalled during the upgrade, and I can't reinstall it:I have not been able to resolve the original issue, but I was finally able to install google-chrome-stable. I believe this only worked because the google-chrome packages are intended to run on different distros, and the distros use different names for the packages, and so the dependencies for google-chrome-stable are on specific files rather than on packages (e.g. /usr/bin/foomatic-rip rather than cups-filters). It appears that google-chrome and a number of the cups packages were deleted during the upgrade for unknown reasons (presumably related to whatever the underlying package management problem is). I found this out because printing wasn't working any more either. (I did end up having to use "--allowerasing", but it seems like I always end up having to do that in order to get "dnf system-upgrade" to work. This is the first (and second) time that I have ever had anything like this happen as a result though).
Since I have my own copy of the fedora repos, I mounted it and went in to the Packages/c directory and installed the cups packages directly from RPMs. Doing this brought back memories of the pre-yum "dependency hell" days. I attempt to install cups-client*.rpm and it says "nothing provides cups-libs". So I add that RPM to the list and another is needed, etc. I ended up having to specify about 8 different RPMs in order to get cups-client and cups-filters to install. After installing those, I was able to install google-chrome-stable, and printing now works.
Unfortunately, "dnf list cups*" still says there are no matching packages, whereas "rpm -qa | grep cups" shows them. So although chrome and printing are working again, the system is not updateable. So I still eventually need to find out what the heck happened during the upgrade and how to fix it.
Remember that rpm is querying the rpm database locally and doesn't check the web. The behavior of dnf sure looks like you have some weird options set in the dnf.conf or repo files (like excludes and such). You could try "dnf -d 10 list cups*" and look carefully at the output. Perhaps you'll see something odd in the repos or plugins or cache or _something_. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Rick Stevens ricks@alldigital.com wrote:
The behavior of dnf sure looks like you have some weird options set in the dnf.conf or repo files (like excludes and such).
<facepalm>Boot to the head</facepalm>
Turns out the two systems that failed were the two that get used a lot. On those, I had been having some kind of problem printing that required downgrading the cups packages in order to get it working again, so I had "exclude=cups*" in the dnf.conf file. Remove that and all is well. I was afraid that this was a problem that was much larger than it actually was, and in fact the example I chose is the only place it actually caused an issue.
One of those things where, after tearing my hair out for a few days, someone says "did you check this dumbass thing over here" and that turns out to be it. I don't know why I didn't think of checking the dnf.conf file to begin with.
Thanks to everyone who helped with this issue.
Note to self: <facepalm>remove excludes from dnf.conf before doing a system-upgrade</facepalm>
--Greg
On 07/07/2016 05:45 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@alldigital.com mailto:ricks@alldigital.com> wrote:
The behavior of dnf sure looks like you have some weird options set in the dnf.conf or repo files (like excludes and such).<facepalm>Boot to the head</facepalm>
Turns out the two systems that failed were the two that get used a lot. On those, I had been having some kind of problem printing that required downgrading the cups packages in order to get it working again, so I had "exclude=cups*" in the dnf.conf file. Remove that and all is well. I was afraid that this was a problem that was much larger than it actually was, and in fact the example I chose is the only place it actually caused an issue.
One of those things where, after tearing my hair out for a few days, someone says "did you check this dumbass thing over here" and that turns out to be it. I don't know why I didn't think of checking the dnf.conf file to begin with.
Thanks to everyone who helped with this issue.
Note to self: <facepalm>remove excludes from dnf.conf before doing a system-upgrade</facepalm>
Just glad you got it sorted out. We've all been there, buddy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - I will go to my happy place. I WOULD go to my happy place.... - - if I knew where the @$>&$@#* it is! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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